A 90 foot redwood is an awesome thing. You’d think a decent architect could have come up with some way to preserve some of them.
Here at U.T., they did a stadium expansion and moved several old oaks to other locations on campus before construction commenced. I realize that redwoods are larger trees, but I wonder if that would have been possible in Berkely.
There are plenty of hippies in Austin, but as far as I know, none of them complained about the construction or relocation. They would have been shot out of the trees on day one, but still...
The trees that were cut down were landscaping for the stadium.
New landscaping will be going in (including trees!) when the center is built. It’s going to be very beautiful.
I have 50-foot redwoods in my backyard I planted 10 years ago. No big deal.
There are many redwoods left on the UCB campus, one is even digitalized.